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Jim:

“Never assume...” and I violated my own commandment.

Yes SML is Smith Mountain Lake, AKA “The Jewel of the Blue Ridge.”

H&C is harder. I’ve never heard it called anything else. I had to Google
it, yes, it was founded by the Woods brothers. But, it’s the brand name
that’s well known in the Roanoke area.
https://www.google.com/search?q=h%20%26%20c%20coffee Here’s a link a
picture of their famous sign.

Regards,

Dave Phelps

P.S. I escaped from NoVA (Fairfax City) to SML in 2004.

On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 8:50 PM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

> Dave Phelps
>
> Bring a guy from "northernmost VA" I had to dig a bit to decipher your
> message below.  Please confirm the two items below:
>
> A). SML refers to Smith Mtn Lake
> B). H&C is Woods Brothers coffee in Roanoke
>
> Thanks
> Jim Stapleton
>
> On Oct 28, 2019, at 22:36, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
> wrote:
>
> Ken et all:
>
> I'm not a coffee "connoisseur" by any stretch, but I am at least a tad
> discriminating, and I like the N&W coffee very much and will buy some more
> soon.  By comparison, when my  late wife and I moved to SML, we bought some
> H&C to try it out and were "underwhelmed."
>
> Regards,
>
> Dave Phelps
>
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 5:19 PM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Dave
>>
>> I’m not a coffee drinker, so I cannot answer the question of taste. My
>> wife is the coffee drinker and she likes it a lot, thinks it does not have
>> the bitter taste that a lot of coffee does.
>>
>> On the authenticity, the folks who make the coffee have a variety of
>> railroad related food products, to mention but a few: PRR coffee, Reading
>> Coffee, Southern Railway biscuit mix, New Haven Johnny cakes, etc.
>>
>> This is the only N&W recipe that they have. But it came from the files of
>> the Dining Car Superintendents Association, which they acquired the files
>> of some time back. It is mid 1920s mix, which stayed on the N&W until
>> sometime in the late 1940s or early 1950s (man, I wish we had those files!)
>> when it was replaced with another brand, then a bit later was replaced with
>> H&C Coffee made in Roanoke. The H&C Coffee stayed on until the end of
>> service.
>>
>> We have a good supply in the Commissary.
>>
>> Ken Miller
>>
>> On Oct 28, 2019, at 3:05 PM, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <
>> nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
>>
>> Has anyone else tried the new N&W coffee available from The Commissary?
>> I have but I'm not a coffee expert, so all I can say is that I liked it.
>> It seems to be a good middle-of-the-road blend, but I'd be interested in
>> more learned opinions.
>>
>> How about its authenticity?  I had some back in 1959-1960 on the
>> Shenandoah Valley runs and a round trip from Christiansburg to Williamson
>> in 1959, but I can't recall anything specific about it.
>>
>> IMO it's a good addition to the Commissary's offerings.
>>
>> Dave Stephenson
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Regards, Dave
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